First International Course on Distributism
21 September, 2025
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Modern forms of Usury
11 September, 2025
When usury is discussed in our times, the typical assumption is that usury refers to the charging of interest on a loan of money. While this is the most common form of usury, this is not sufficient for a definition or an understanding of what usury truly is. I’ve presented a more detailed description of … More Modern forms of Usury
Something for Nothing? A review by Thomas Storck
4 September, 2025
Originally published in The Chesterton Review, spring/summer 2025. David Hunt, Something for Nothing? An Explanation and Defence of the Scholastic Position on Usury. Lincoln, Nebraska: Os Justi Press, 2024. 133 pages, including bibliography. $26.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. $14.95 e-book by Thomas Storck For about two hundred years the question of usury has slept a deep … More Something for Nothing? A review by Thomas Storck
The Distributist System, Catholicism, J.R.R. Tolkien, And His Distributist Hobbits
10 June, 2025
by Jeb Smith What Is Distributism Socialism and capitalism are not at war with each other—they are in cahoots with each other. They have formed that unholy alliance, the servile state—big government propped up by big business, and big business propped up by big government.-Dale Ahlquist, et al., The Hound of Distributism: A Solution for … More The Distributist System, Catholicism, J.R.R. Tolkien, And His Distributist Hobbits
Tariffs or Free Trade: A Distributist Perspective
13 May, 2025
by Thomas Storck As I write these lines in April 2025 the United States, and the rest of the world as well, is agitated by President Donald Trump’s broadscale imposition of tariffs. One is not sure whether those tariffs are primarily designed to raise revenue, bully other countries into conforming with Trump’s political goals, protect … More Tariffs or Free Trade: A Distributist Perspective
The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty and the Common Good
30 January, 2025
A Review by Thomas Storck First published in The Chesterton Review, Volume 50, Issue 3/4, Fall/Winter 2024 Alexander Salter’s recent book on distributism and its relationship with political economy is a welcome sign of interest on the part of academic economists in distributism. Salter is generally sympathetic to what he calls the socio-economic goals of … More The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty and the Common Good
Practical Distributism 